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Another factor in making music come to life is the use of the proper sized auditorium. In Paine Hall, Handel's Concerto Grosso Opus 6 no. 4 was not dwarfed accoustically as it might have been in Sanders Theater. Senturia drove his strings to the kind of relentless rhythm that can make Baroque music so exciting. While the accuracy of the violins was not quite 100 percent, the counterpoint was clear and the pacing excellent...
...from an "alumnus aquaticus" for a swimming pool started the administration thinking about an I.A.B. Maurice Ravel conducted at Sanders, Professor Charles T. Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, retired, and the Hasty Pudding ambitiously formulated plans for a nation-wide tour of its latest opus: "Not Now--Later...
With a tweet, a toot, and an occasional twitter, the New York Wood-wind Quintet will give the second and last of the Holmes Hall Concerts this Sunday at 8 p.m. Included in the program are Beethoven's Quintet in E Flat, Opus 71a and Mozart's Divertimento Number Three...
...Administrator Paul A. Porter, 51, now a capital lawyer and being jettisoned by his wife (since 1930), confirmed rumors that he is entranced with thrice-wed (to All-America Footballer Robert Herwig, Bandleader Artie Shaw, Attorney Arnold Krakower) Novelist Kathleen Winsor, 37, best remembered for her sex-clogged 1944 opus about naughty 17th century England, Forever Amber. Forever contending that she herself is no Amber, Kathleen allowed that she will marry Porter in May. Said Author Winsor: "I plan to really keep house when we settle down . . . I've been taking cooking lessons for a year...
...Tidningen's "The most gripping picture of hell that has ever been seen in the theater." But one first-nighter grumbled that "Such drawn-out, detailed probing of personalities can only keep the interest of somebody personally involved." Another offered a new title for the O'Neill opus: Four Acts in Search of a Play...